Stephen Fry Quotes
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.
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The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.
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When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.
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For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.
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Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.
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I read a lot of fiction.
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The influence of Steven Spielberg to my career is unquantifiable. Every day on the set with him is a master class in filmmaking.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
